50 1905 meeting 102 problem arose in 1918, when it was discovered two GOLDEN VALLEY 1344 were in operation this one near Perdue, and the other est. 1915 near Ponteix. The Ponteix SD changed names. 1906- new school 1925-1958

School name changes and variations may have happened throughout the years. It is important to go to the source which is on the alphabetical school district name pages in the source column to see where the alternate spellings and variations originated.
The school district used by a community may be found by also checking spelling variants. A local community may also have called their school a nick name, the brick school house, or the red school house rather than the registered name. Many genealogisits and historians know the value of searching for surname variations, it is the same for placenames and school names. Hearing a word or name may create individual interpretations in spelling, or interpreting hand writing may also cause spelling variations, a typing or transcription error may also cause variations through time. Problems may arise in the pronunciation of a school name which may cause variations in the written word. A school name may move from the school house located in a rural setting to the new school building in a town or village setting and thus cause a name change for the rural building, yet the school district number remains the same. Investigate abbreviations for school district names. In some cases a school district name made from two descriptive words may be spelled as one word, or it may be seperated into two words.

In the North West Territories the 1884 Territorial Ordinance #5 allowed for the formation
of school districts. School Districts were given numbers in the order by which the areas
applied for. This sorting by School District Number then gives an idea of the NWT early
settlement patterns, and school house formation by year. When Saskatchewan and Alberta
became provinces in 1905, numbers previously in use in Alberta were cancelled and re-applied
to School Districts of Saskatchewan. When the two provinces were formed Alberta continued
numerically incrementing from the last school District Number which was at that time Bow
Valley S. D. 1409. The next one of Alberta therefore numbered was 1410. Saskatchewan
then re-used any numbers which were now not being used and therefore some School Districts
may have two names attached to them...the early use of the number in Alberta, and later use
in Saskatchewan.

When a source provides a certain name with its unique, that is the spelling provided, in this way it can be traced. If a school district number is assigned a variation in school name on this web page, it is important, as in genealogy, to go to the source and then to follow up on additional sources of information. Sources used come from local history books, local community signs, historic Rural Municipality maps, the actual school house building, school building photographs, school district records, two seperate Provincial Archive typed listings, Department of Education hand written listing, school house files stored at Provincial Archives and/or Canadian Archives records.